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Champions League 2020/2021. First leg 1/8
February 17, 22:00
Portugal. Porto. Stadium: “Dragau“
Porto 22:00 Juventus
Referee: Carlos del Cerro (Spain)
In the first match of the last 16 of the Champions League, the reigning Portuguese champion will play against the best team in Italy last season: “Porto” will take on “Juventus”. The meeting will take place in the arena of the house of the “dragons” – “Dragau”.
Porto
Sergio Conceição’s men began their journey in the current season of the main European Cup in Quartet C with Manchester City, Olympiacos and Marseille. At the end of the group stage, the “dragons” won 4 wins, once tied and lost again – Porto scored 13 points and advanced to the next stage from second place.
In the national championship, Porto is doing it ambiguously and the team has probably lost the chances of a championship: after 19 rounds, the team has 41 points in its asset, occupies the second position in the standings and is 10 points from the first ”. Deportivo. “It should be noted that the” dragons “show the best performance in the league: 43 goals scored.
In February, the Conceisão team is very stormy: in 5 games in all tournaments, Porto won only one victory and 4 times they painted a draw. In the last game, on February 13, Porto drew 2-2 with Boavista at home.
The Porto infirmary houses Mbaye, Nanu, Marcano and Otavio.
Juventus
Turintsy also performed in Group G with the Catalans “Barcelona”, Kiev “Dynamo” and “Ferencvaros”. “Zebras” scored 15 points, surpassed the “Blaugrana” in additional indicators and came out 1/8 of the first place.
In Serie A, the current Italian champion currently closes the top four teams with 42 points and one reserve match. Despite the rather shaky results, Andrea Pirlo’s teams also maintain their mark and show the best defense on the Apennine peninsula: 19 goals conceded. In his last match, Turintsy minimally lost in Naples to Gennaro Gattuso – “Napoli”.
Juve are experiencing serious personnel problems: midfielders Artur Melo and Juan Cuadrado will definitely not play, the involvement of defense leader Leonardo Bonucci, forward Paulo Dybala and midfielder Aaron Ramsey is questionable. Turin’s main star, Cristiano Ronaldo, is fully ready for the fight against the “dragons”.
Approximate compositions
Port: Marcesin, Sarr, Pepe, Diogu Leite, Manafa, Joao Mario, Sergio Oliveira, Fabio Vieira, Corona, Taremi, Marega.
Juventus: Chesny, Danilo, De Licht, Kellini, Sandro, Bentancourt, Rabio, Chiesa, Bernardeschi, Morata, Cristiano Ronaldo.
Previous team matches
Surprisingly, “Porto” and “Juve” have only played 5 games in their history: 4 in the Champions League and one game in the Recopa in 1984.
The last time the teams met was at the beginning of 2017, also in the 1/8 stage, then the people of Turin faced the “dragons” without any problem: 1: 0 in Portugal and 2: 0 in Italy .
Match forecast Porto v Juventus
The bookmakers give a clear preference to the charges of Andrea Pirlo, even despite the status of the invited team: the coefficient for the victory of the “zebras” is 2,136. However, Turintsy is not in an invincible form of play and plays rather weakly – the last away game against “Napoli” is proof of this. Therefore, a bet on a tie result looks very good: 3.3.
Prediction UA-Football – 1: 1.
